Perk Repairs & Renovation Service, LLC

Never use this guy. I am out of $3515.00 plus cash! He painted over rotten pickets and posts, instead of replacing any/all rotted posts and pickets as was agreed upon! This was September 2018...!!! I just discovered this upon raking leaves away from fence! LESS THAN FIVE MONTHS HAVE PASSED!!!! Frank Perkinson was to replace all rotted wooden pickets and posts. That was the agreement. Upon raking and cleaning around my fence I started uncovering rot on the pickets and posts. He replaced some pickets but they range from 2” width between pickets to 4” width! I have bowed 2 x 4’s as well!!! The pickets he replaced are several inches off the ground in some places. He sent me a check for $250.00 which is totally unacceptable!! I have quotes to fix this fence $3,509-$4,000. This fence looks worse now than before he touched it! Screws are sticking out sharp edges to inside. Some pickets are not attached to the wood anymore. Posts are up and down in height plus they do not match! Some have flat heads and some are pointed. Please think about not hiring him! Be careful.

Frank's error caused a catastrophe in my home. My downstairs ceiling collapsed just as I was moving in, from hitting two water lines upstairs a few months earlier. It was about 10:00 pm that I was bringing my last precious cargo, my pet bunny, and I had just been gone since 7. I suppose I was fortunate not to be sitting below, and fortunate that the soaked sheetrock and water did not pour down into my grand piano (not baby grand). Still it was catastrophic and I felt that it about killed me. I had been working long hours moving and clearing out of my house, and I still had to go back the next day to finish emptying the garage. I had to ask my neighbor to come over late at night to tell me what I was seeing because I could not even interpret what had happened to my interior. Then the firemen came to let me know my house would not continue to fall in. I had to move things out of the way of the water leak so then I had nowhere to put my sweet bunny. She was traumatized and attacking because she was so afraid of being left in the stairwell. I was not able to lift her cage up the stairs myself. Then I had to clean up the heavy wet sheetrock to prevent damages to the wood floor, and I ended up exhausted and with only two hours sleep before the next day of hard labor. This was at the time of the storm Matthew and I was going to stay with a friend but her power went out, and I ended up having to stay in a hotel but I had to keep driving to Durham because Red Cross and storm victims had filled the hotels by the airport. The next day when I had to go out to get something to eat I almost crashed. That was frightening but I did not die and although there were damages most of my belongings were unscathed because the movers had not removed the plastic. But then I had to rent a U-Haul to store furnishings and have the piano moved and shrink wrapped to protect from sheetrock dust, after my home had just been newly renovated and I had nowhere else to live. What happened was I hired Mr. Perkinson and his college student grandson to do some basic demo and trim work at the end of my townhouse renovation, and I felt secure with a retired mechanical engineer. I felt he would understand the mechanics of the household and would not have the drinking and drug problems of some of the younger crowd. We had discussed the plumbing and where the pipes are located in the wall, and he had put shelves on the opposite side of the wall before he installed baseboards in the bathroom. When we discussed the baseboards he said he knew where the water pipes were and he would also angle the nails downward with his nail gun. It is obvious where the water pipes are because the wall was expanded in the renovation for a longer tub and the wall wraps around the pipes. So what could go wrong, right? He hit two of the three pipes with his nail gun and if I had thought to put my ear to the wall I might have heard the water fizzing. It leaked for about three months before the ceiling collapsed at the moment of my move in. I had already had that ceiling smoothed of popcorn and painted, and then afterwards learned of a structural problem so I had to have a new beam installed in the same ceiling. So this was the third ceiling renovation that was required at the same spot. The guy I could find to repair the sheetrock last minute was a bum who abandoned without completion so then I had to find yet another guy who was a great blessing to me. The U-Haul truck was due to be returned and I did not see how I would have had the strength to move my furnishings out and in twice. Let me say before this happened I was patient with Mr. Perkinson. He worked for me a long time and I was willing to take more time because I thought I was getting better quality with a retired educated professional. I felt he took advantage of the situation and exhausted me before I had the emergency to deal with, because he would work whatever hours he wanted without consideration for my schedule. He would not write down what I wanted done so if I left at any time he would do the work incorrectly which meant a lot of my own time and energy was required. He had written his last receipt for around $1200 I believe although I am skeptical because I believe he had charged me to do some things over. This is how he left me with all of the repairs and mess. I think the plumbing was $550 and the ceiling around $800 although it is still not painted as it had been, piano bench repair, U-Haul, hotel, although I climbed over boxes and slept on the couch for a while. No real apology or recompense.